Organ Swapping.
The sale of human organs is a particularly contentious issue. At its worst, it conjures up images of outrageous conduct, as in China's sale of organs involuntarily removed from executed prisoners.[1] Nonetheless, many people believe that markets for organs, properly designed, can play an important role in increasing the...

Where It Hurts: Indian Material for an Ethics of Organ Transplantation.
PROLOGUE: THE SCAR WE ARE SITTING in a one-room municipal housing-project flat in a Chennai slum, in a room filled with photographs of the man of the house posing with Tamil political leaders. His wife, one of the persons I am interviewing this June 1998 morning, all...

The brain stem in brain death: a critical review.
There is no sure foundation set on blood, No certain life achieved by others' death.(1) We would take the issue of brain death from the "misty court of `philosophy'"(2) and examine it in the cool light of medical science and clinical neurology, which will not...

Pet reptiles and salmonella.
Until recently, the only reptiles widely associated with outbreaks of salmonellosis among human beings were turtles: the baby red-eared sliders that were briefly popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s. FDA, acting under the advice of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), banned the sale of these turtles in...

International response to Dolly: will scientific freedom get sheared?
"Freedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe." --David Sarnoff, Chairman of RCA(1) I. INTRODUCTION On February 22, 1997, the researchers at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh shocked the scientific community as well as the world by unveiling the first clone of...

BIOCERAMICS: Japanese set to dominate biomaterials industry
Japanese industry could dominate the world markets for biomaterials, a UK mission has reported after visiting the country. Aided by the UK Government's Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), the team of industrialists and academics visited major companies, government research laboratories, universities and government departments. Their aim was to...

IOCERAMICS: Japanese set to dominate biomaterials industry
Japanese industry could dominate the world markets for biomaterials, a UK mission has reported after visiting the country. Aided by the UK Government s Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), the team of industrialists and academics visited major companies, government research laboratories, universities and government departments. Their aim was...

Cell transplants combat diabetes in mice.
By providing ailing mice with cells grown from the pancreatic tissue of genetically identical healthy animals, scientists have reversed a mouse version of diabetes, according to a new study. Their findings suggest a new route for treatment of diabetic patients. Although tissue or organ transplants would seem...

Langsdorf's ultimate game plan.
Byline: Bob Clark The Register-Guard CORVALLIS - They all talk about it rather matter of factly now, except there remains a realization of what the odds really were that everything could have happened the way it did. `It was pretty much a miracle,' Oregon State...

Peter M. Lacerte.
WEBSTER/PHILADELPHIA, NY Peter M. Lacerte, 47, of Philadelphia, NY, formerly of Webster, died Saturday, May 12, in Strong Memorial Hospital, Rochester, NY, where he had been a patient for the last month. He had been ill with liver failure. He leaves his wife of 23 years, Lisa...